Release Date
GTA 6 releases Thursday, November 19, 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, a date reaffirmed in earnings calls and SEC filings, with boxes out November 12.
- Release date
- Thursday, November 19, 2026
- Platforms
- PS5, Xbox Series X|S
- Physical boxes
- November 12, 2026
- Pre-load
- From November 12, local midnight
- PC version
- Not dated
Grand Theft Auto VI releases on Thursday, November 19, 2026 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. It is the third date the game has carried, and the one every official signal since has pointed at. A PC version is not dated, there is no last-gen release, and the launch countdown is running on the 6Charts homepage.
The date has been repeatedly reaffirmed on the record. Take-Two stood behind it at its February 2026 earnings call and again on May 21, 2026, building fiscal 2027 guidance around the launch. In July 2026 the date reached a different class of document: the company's SEC proxy statements, filed July 17 and July 27 ahead of a September 17 shareholder meeting, name "the planned November 19th release." One wording note before anyone panics: "planned" is standard hedging in forward-looking SEC filings, not a signal of doubt. Unqualified promises about future products simply do not appear in documents filed under those liability rules.
Key logistics: physical boxes, which contain a download code rather than a disc, reach shelves on November 12, 2026, and pre-loading begins the same day at local midnight, giving buyers a week to download before launch.
On whether the date holds, the most-quoted voice is Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, who said in July 2026 he is "roughly 90 percent certain the game will make its November 19 release date without another delay." That quote is widely garbled: a viral version claims he said the game is 90 percent complete, which he did not say and which describes a different thing entirely. Certainty about a date is a reporter's confidence level, not a progress bar.
After two delays, documented in full at delay history, skepticism is understandable. But the current date is the most reinforced this project has ever had: earnings calls, SEC filings, open pre-orders and a shipped marketing campaign all hang on it. Full background in our release-date timeline.